Relational Anthropology – The Relational Lineage of Ethnic, Black, Indigenous, and Diaspora Thought
Chapter Thirty One highlights the critical contributions of Black, Indigenous, Chicano, feminist, queer, and diaspora thinkers to Relational Anthropology. These intellectuals reveal essential insig…
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Redefining the hyphen: Transnational Indo-Caribbean identity through objects, memory and representation in conversation with Jacqui Ramrayka
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d1131374e101">This article explores the evolving transnational Indo-Caribbean diasporic identity
through artistic expressions. I examine the work of British-Guyanese ceramicist, Jacqui
Ramrayka, whose recent exhibition, ‘Redefining the Hyphen’, at the Victoria and Albert
Museum in London, highlights the tensions between cultural preservation and identity
formation within the Indo-Caribbean communities in London, New York and Toronto. Through
a conversation with Ramrayka we interrogate how material culture, memory and migration
shape diasporic consciousness. We unpack how Ramrayka’s clay and conversation workshops
in these three cities present an innovative approach to capturing how people in different
migratory contexts construct meaning and interrogate their cultural identity through
interaction with objects. Additionally, this article contextualizes Indo-Caribbean
identity within broader socio-political structures of the diasporic communities in
the Global North. By engaging largely with second-generation communities and their
negotiations of belonging, this conversation contributes to the discourse on transnationalism,
diasporic identity and the role of artistic practices in navigating histories of indentureship
and migration. Ultimately, it foregrounds the hybridity of Indo-Caribbean identity
as an ongoing process of redefinition and reclamation.
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A collection in which I have a chapter is out this week from Cambridge UP! So grateful to the editor, Angela Naimou, for including my work and for her careful and patient efforts on this volume: Diaspora and Literary Studies.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/diaspora-and-literary-studies/8962CFAACF01F587A95F1374ECE4C8FA
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